# vert

> English word · Noun · IPA /vɜːt/ · frequency rank #29,513

## Definitions
1. A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
2. Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

## Etymology
From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

## Easily confused with
- **VR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vr)
- **vet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vet)
- **vex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vex)
- **vor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vor)
- **Vit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vit)
- **very** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-very)
- **vest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vest)
- **veto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-veto)
- **vets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vets)
- **volt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-volt)
- **Viet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-viet)
- **Vogt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vogt)
- **verve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-verve)
- **Virat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-virat)
- **Vesta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vesta)
- **vertex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vert-vs-vertex)
- **VAR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/var-vs-vert)
- **vat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vat-vs-vert)
- **veg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veg-vs-vert)
- **vee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vee-vs-vert)

## Common misspellings (6)
`evrt`, `verrt`, `vertt`, `vetr`, `vret`, `vvert`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/vert